LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A western Arkansas man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, just days after her body was found on land owned by the man’s brother.

Lloyd Jones, 36, was being held on a $1 million bond in the Sebastian County jail, according to court documents. He is scheduled to go before a judge Wednesday. The documents don’t indicate whether Jones, who was convicted of rape in 2001, has an attorney.

His alleged victim, Angela Allen, went missing Feb. 10 after telling a relative she was going for a walk. Her body was found Friday inside a blue, plastic barrel on a land owned by Jones’ brother near Lavaca, about 15 miles east of Fort Smith.

Authorities said Jones told investigators that he picked the teenager up Feb. 10 at a hospital parking lot in Van Buren and took her to the Arkansas River. Court documents allege he told investigators he decided not to take her to his home in nearby Lavaca because his girlfriends might find out.

According to the documents, Jones said he was making out with Angela, and after she told him her age, “violently pushed her into the water and left her there.”

Sheriff’s deputies searching property owned by Jones’ brother found a body and identified it using dental records. A preliminary autopsy showed that Angela died of strangulation and no fluid was found in her lungs.

Officers tracked down Jones after finding multiple text messages on Angela’s cellphone from his number, a sheriff’s investigator wrote in an affidavit. Authorities discovered that Jones is a sex offender and located him by tracing the location of his cellphone.

Investigators also questioned one of his girlfriends, who said Jones would take his laptop to Starbucks to talk to people through social networking websites.

Jones told authorities he used one site, Mbuzzy.com, to communicate with Angela, who also had an account with that site, sheriff’s investigator Anthony Sacco wrote. Court documents allege that Jones also told investigators that when he and Angela were at the river, he hit her in the chest and knocked her into the water.

“He thought that (Angela) might have been unable to swim, because her arms might have been injured when she was struck,” Sacco wrote.

One of Jones girlfriends told authorities that Jones’ clothes and shoes were covered in mud when he came home that night.

Authorities arrested him last week on an assault charge in connection with Angela’s disappearance. While he was in jail, authorities said, Jones’ father stopped by and asked him what was going on.

During the recorded visit, authorities allege that Jones asked, “Did they find her?” and said “I panicked -- I did it.”

Court records filed in 2001 show that a jury found Jones guilty of rape after a prosecutor said he held a box cutter to a woman’s throat, duct-taped her mouth and sexually assaulted her. A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

He was paroled in 2008 and discharged in 2010, according to a prison spokeswoman.